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Touching, licking and biting: Magic Mike dancers have #MeToo moment

Dancers say at least two women a week are thrown out of the show

<p>Clockwise from left: Sugababes Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy; Andrew Logan and Dame Zandra Rhodes; Harry Hill and Victoria Coren-Mitchell</p>
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Sugababes don’t push the right buttons at V&A summer party

‘It was okay, apart from the fact that all of their songs sounded the same,’ said Dame Zandra Rhodes

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Matt Hancock: ‘I wear trainers to look like my constituents’

‘Only schoolteachers and politicians wear suits,’ he says

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Tory mayoral hopefuls deny leaking partygate dancing video

A Tory whodunnit is unfolding over the leak of party footage

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£10,000 kids parties at National Gallery prompt calls for revolution

A guided tour of the gallery with dinner will set you back £75,000

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Tory mayor hopeful Susan Hall’s support for Trump

Hall supported Trump online, and has been criticised for saying the black community has ‘problems with crime’

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Labour man running in Boris Johnson’s old seat prepares for snap vote

‘It wasn’t how I envisioned my weekend’ says Labour’s candidate for Uxbridge Danny Beales

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Tory donor Crispin Odey denies the door is shut at close friend’s club

Odey was once described as “a valued member of 5 Hertford Street”

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Is Alexa Chung engaged?

What’s that on her ring finger?

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Labour’s hunt for celebs off to a slow start (but Baldrick’s back)

The party has spent £50,000 on a celebrity endorsements officer

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Revealed: Michelle Mone’s effort to rescue image following PPE affair

The peer and businesswoman hired a PR firm that says it can “uncancel” people

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Succession is ‘the only good thing to come out of Brexit’ says writer

The show’s top writers struck up their partnership on referendum night

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Celebs pelted with cigarette butts in catwalk meltdown

Vogue magazine’s chief critic was “really not happy”

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Club boss Richard Caring hits out at council over revamp red tape

Getting approval is “like giving birth to triplets,” he said

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Boris Johnson starts a whirlwind tour of America (next stop, Vegas)

‘Wild horses couldn’t keep me away from the United States’, he told an audience in Texas

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Actor Iona, who has clown training, to play Matt Hancock in live show

The actress told us her clown training will ‘come in handy’

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Labour gaffe as Reeves flies business class, then hides the evidence

She scrambled to conceal her business class seat number by photoshopping an image

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Stanley Tucci whiles away the hours with Pasta Grannies

He watches the videos when ‘languishing’ in his trailer

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British Museum quietly drops Rosetta Stone tagline

Thousands of Egyptians say they want the Stone back

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Private school head slams Keir Starmer for plans to cut tax breaks

Headmaster of Rugby says policy is not ‘thought through’

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King urged to step up as charity patron after the Queen’s death

A number of organisations are still without a patron after the death of Queen Elizabeth

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Chelsea FC scraps all-day music venue after local pressure

‘Our primary concern is building a strong relationship with our neighbours,’ the club said

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No excuses for ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon, says fellow Guardian cartoonist

Henny Beaumont criticises fellow cartoonist Martin Rowson for his caricature of Richard Sharp

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Rachel Weisz say she and Daniel Craig don’t practice lines together

The couple have tried in the past but use other techniques now

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Ghost writers go to war over Prince Harry’s memoir Spare

J.R. Moehringer has taken a swipe at Andrew O’Hagan, who gave him a bad review

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Queenie author credits Ryan Calais Cameron work on TV adaptation

Candice Carty-Williams is working on the TV version of her award-winning novel

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Rise of MPs who have the whip suspended as parties ‘park the problem’

There are currently 16 Independent MPs in total who lost the whip

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Scandal hit ex-Tory whip Chris Pincher moves away from alcohol column

Pincher kept The Critic ‘On Drink’ column even after resigning as Deputy Chief Whip last year